ARROW Concept Art of Oliver Queen and Brother Blood's Mask by Any Poon

This season of Arrow has brought some major changes and one of the
biggest is that Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) finally wears a mask. It's
not exactly like the domino mask that Green Arrow wears in the comics,
but it's pretty close. One of the concept illustrators on the show is
Andy Poon and he recently shared some of the many looks they considered
for the mask on his blog. Poon is a professional concept
artist who's worked on network television shows like Smallville, and Slugterra.

Oliver Queen's Mask
"Conceptually, it was something we wanted to do because Oliver himself
is evolving as the Arrow– from vigilante to hero, sort of from Arrow
to Green Arrow — and we wanted to see that progression in his costume
as well," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg to EW.
"As Oliver is embracing being a hero, being a hero means stepping out
of the dark and being more of a symbol, so he has to stake steps to
conceal his identity more." He also added: "It’s going to allow the
Arrow to interact with people who don’t know his identity in a much
more organic way than having him constantly keep his head down."

Brother Blood
Plus, he also shared some designs for Brother Blood's (Kevin Alejandro) terrifying mask. On his blog he said, "Like Bronze tiger, I did not have too much knowledge about him, so I had
to do my research. He was a Vampire / cult leader in the comic books,
but I like the direction they are going for on Arrow. I did quite a few
versions of the mask, and we ended up going for a simpler version."

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